If you haven’t read The Worst Hard Time, I recommend it. It’s heartbreaking but very well done.

“Nah but there are some Japanese Americans who are genuinely upset”

My favorite comment by far is “isn’t kanji chinese anyway?” like white people don’t even know who to be offended for anymore. This is why I’ve always rallied against this fake outrage.

So getting Japanese characters tattoo’d on you is now cultural appropriation?

Getting a tattoo of kanji isn’t taking anything from the culture. You aren’t taking it for yourself. You are using it. That is appreciation, not appropriation.

“I’m mad for you! Why aren’t you mad?!”

I absolutely understand when people are frustrated by appropriation, but at some point we as a society really do need to figure out how to differentiate between what Ariana (rightly, imo) called “appreciation vs. appropriation.” We talk about how we want everyone to share in and appreciate our respective cultures, but…

It ALWAYS fascinates me how close the people that shout “how dare you to use the culture of a different country!” and the crowd that smugly says “my country’s best, i don’t want anything foreign here” actually are.

Actual cultural appropriation looks more like this or this - your mileage may vary on how offensive these are but to me, these examples either mock or disrespect another culture.

That’s totally different from wearing a pair of mocassins though, or getting a Kanji tattoo - in those cases you obviously aren’t taking…

It’s all on account of self-important ignorants who speak of things they don’t fully understand. It used to be that cultural appropriation referred to a derogatory use of one’s culture, but nowadays social studies graduates with no real education feel the need to tell everyone about their misguided perception of the…

No, you end up with idiots like Logan Paul when parents don’t bother to teach their kids basic concepts like respect and empathy. That has nothing to do at all with “cultural appropriation.” Logan Paul is a douchebag in the U.S. too.

Well, I’ll grant that is a bit strange, but more stores should promote their sales that way!

“Meh, Japanese people wear t-shirts with strange English.”

The nonsense is only spread by americans. Other people either don’t give a shit or are happy to see you are wearing things of their culture. If you wore a shalwar kameez to Pakistan no one is going to be mad; they’ll be quite happy actually.

It amazes me how racist/sexist/whateverelseist people are being in the name of inclusivity. It used to be a good thing, people sharing and enjoying other cultures. Now we barricade them off and essentially segregate cultures in the guise of inclusivity. It’s depressing how conservative Neo-liberals are.

Very unfortunate what her tattoo said. But I really don't understand the backlash. Especially from Americans. Thinking they have the final word on cultural appropriation. What a snobbish thing to say.

Oh my fucking god. So getting Japanese characters tattoo’d on you is now cultural appropriation?

Get the fuck out of here.

Look, we’ve all laughed at those people who got a Chinese character tattoo that thought it meant “spirit” or something, but it instead meant “soup”. But thats about the extent of it. The person…

This whole "cultural appropriation is offensive" movement lately is the apex of stupid. The world has always shared and evolved it's cultures and languages. The people that get upset over this are never even the ones whose cultures are being "appropriated". They really need to STFU.

I like this one. It always seems like those not involved or affected in any way are the ones making the biggest stink about things. I’m gonna go ahead and appropriate this quote.